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See also:GOLTZIUS, HENDRIK (1558-1617) , Dutch painter and engraver, was See also:born in 1558 at Mtilebrecht, in the duchy of pinch. After studying See also:painting on See also:glass for some years under his See also:father, he, was taught the use of the burin by See also:Dirk Volkertsz Coornlert, a Dutch engraver of mediocre attainment, whom hesoon surpassed, but who retained his services for his own See also:advantage. He was also employed by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Galle to engrave a set of prints of the See also:history of See also:Lucretia. At the See also:age of twenty-one he married a widow somewhat advanced in years, whose See also:money enabled him to establish at See also:Haarlem an See also:independent business; but his unpleasant relations with her so affected his See also:health that he found it advisable in 1590 to make a tour through See also:Germany, to See also:Italy, where he acquired an intense admiration for the See also:works of See also:Michelangelo, which led him to surpass that See also:master in the grotesqueness and extravagance of his designs. He returned to Haarlem considerably improved in health, and laboured there at his See also:art till his See also:death, on the 1st of See also:January 1617. Goltzius ought not to be judged chiefly by the works he valued most, his See also:eccentric imitations of Michelangelo. His portraits, though mostly miniatures, are master-pieces of their- See also:kind, both on See also:account of their exquisite finish, and as See also:fine studies of individual See also:character. Of his larger heads, the See also:life-See also:size portrait of himself is probably the most striking example. His " master-pieces," so called from their being attempts to imitate the See also:style of the old masters, have perhaps been overpraised. In his command of the burin Goltzius is not surpassed even by Dtirer; but his technical skill is often unequally aided by higher See also:artistic qualities. Even, however, his eccentricities and extravagances are greatly counterbalanced by the beauty and freedom of his See also:execution. He began painting at the age of See also:forty-two, but none of his works in this See also:branch of art—some of which are in the imperial collection at See also:Vienna—display any See also:special excellences. He also executed a few pieces in See also:chiaroscuro.
His prints amount to more than 300 plates, and are fully described in Bartsch's Peintre-graveur, and Weigel's supplement to the same See also:work.
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